00:00We're a maritime center, so our business is to connect people with the bay, and that means learning how to
00:07live alongside the bay.
00:08So these weather events, whether it's the winds coming out of the east, so on top of all of the
00:13snow and losing power,
00:15we're going to have to deal with all that fetch and wave action coming in.
00:19It's every experience helps us be better.
00:23We are the stewards of this campus, so we appreciate any weather event like this, especially when we walk away
00:29from it unscathed.
00:30We have an incredible on-site team.
00:33There are about nine of us that live on-site, and it allows us to get back rolling and be
00:39here for the community after a weather event such as this.
00:42We were all wobbling within as that wind gusted well over 60.
00:47We kept an eye on all of our equipment during the tidal surges, and fortunately, we were very lucky.
00:54And we're so, again, just so grateful it only lasted as long as it did.
00:59Just like any other institution that has to endure all things New England weather, we learn from it.
01:07And fortunately, we had everything in place from this, but we did learn some really great ideas for how we
01:12can further protect the campus in the event of some weather.
01:16I do think that Massachusetts has a rare sense of calm when these kinds of weather events come through.
01:23It's nice that you're shoulder-to-shoulder with people who aren't overwhelmed.
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